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Hi everyone,
When I connect to my wireless network (very secure and complex WPA2 password), I go to File Explorer and the click on the "Network" at the bottom left of the window. There continues to be a wireless device or phone that shows detected on the network. I have seen three different devices and mac addresses since logging on this morning. I have also checked the router and there is no record of these mac id's or devices on the router. Where would these be coming from? This doesn't show on my Windows 7 machines. And also, I do not own any of these phones that are appearing on the network. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You in advance for any help,
Phil
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Also if you disable the WCM how does that prevent a phone from still (even if it is just a random thing aka a glitch) from connecting? Doesn'tjust keep it from seeing the devices(thebPC from seeing the random phones?-- again slow and very painful to edit on here )
just saying why would anyone in America have a phone from Australia trying to connect one day and then a phone from Germany the next day or the next phone that comes up on the network page.. Especially when we don't sell those in Illinois. Are we sure there is no possibility that there is some kind of glitch?
Ok.... So then how come i only see phones... I never see another PC doing the exact same thing. Or why does windows say possible devices to connect instead of the random devices saying just a MAC address? Why is there not a easily accessible setting to change this? I mean only Android devices pop up, even with our Windows phones (Windows 10 and 8.1) never show up. I also never see anyone's devices that they own show up. I mean yes your phone finds available Wi-Fi but they should bus find the radio signal and not have to try connecting. Now Wi-Fi sense is a thing where it connects to popular wifi but it never connects to ones that require a password unless you have successful signed in. (sorry for the bad grammar, any Microsoft browser on mobile and PC have a pain trying to delete in these boxes... Fix it Microsoft) all I'm saying is that it seems really dumb for this "feature" (windows connect now) makes phones try to connect when they might not be owned by me.
Humm...
I thought that but I was concerned with the whole thing in general. I'll try that out though.
I have been having this issue as well. It started off showing up on only one of my laptops and now it shows on both. The curious thing is it shows up in my network devices but as soon as I see it and do a MAC search it disappears that second and another shows up in a few minutes. One is an LG phone, another is a Lenovo computer, and another is an Amazon product and another is a Linux system. I don't think it is harmless as the previous posters have noted. If it were just a neighbor's phone. why would it disappear the second I discover it and do a search on it. Why would some of these show up in Aruba as someone else suggested theirs are as well. These are not neighbor's devices. I hope someone can discover how to completely rid our systems of this. Also, several times when I went to my router's webpage to sign in and change the network name and password, it said I had maximized the number of attempts to sign in. Of course, I had made no such previous attempt. This doesn't happen every time I go in but several since this has been happening. I wait the allotted minutes and then I am able to sign in. Ugh what a hassle.
